PACIFIC EXPLORATION: /. IV. FEWKES 
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As will be seen, I have assumed that the exploration should last 
several years. A hurried trip with short stops at a few remote points 
is not enough at the present day. What we wish is a more detailed 
knowledge so that the fragmentary facts which we now possess may be 
fused into a more complete picture of the Pacific Marine Flora. Then 
and not until then shall we be able to discuss intelligently the question 
of the distribution and general character of the insular floras and their 
relation to those of the nearest continents. 
The exploration of the marine flora is of course only one of the numer- 
ous objects of an expedition to the Pacific, but it is an important object 
when one considers the great extent of the coast to be studied. The 
work in this important field should be intrusted to an expert well trained 
in the study of algae and not left to the chance work of a general col- 
lector who, although he might bring back valuable material, could not 
be expected to recognize the smaller species which are quite as interesting, 
often more interesting than the larger species. 
THE PACIFIC AS A FIELD FOR ETHNOLOGICAL AND 
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION 
By J. Walter Fewkes 
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, WASHINGTON, D. C 
Read before the Academy, April 17, 1916 Received, May 24, 1916 
In the following suggestions regarding the Pacific as a field for an- 
thropological investigation the valuable work already accomplished in 
this branch of study has not been overlooked. The contributions which, 
from time to time, have been published by local students have been 
most important, and the admirable reports of expeditions sent out by 
the different governments of Europe and by local museums, have re- 
vealed a wealth of material on the aboriginal inhabitants of the Pacific. 
But the field for anthropological investigation in the Pacific is so 
vast that many additional laborers are needed to gather the plenteous 
harvest it offers. There is an urgent call for cooperation of many more 
specialists so that this work may be carried on as part of a coordinated 
plan, systematically followed. This necessitates more observations 
on the migrations of the Polynesians, Melanesians, and dark races of the 
Pacific, to determine their center of origin and diffusion from island to 
island, a study directly connected with geographical phenomena. In- 
vestigations of the colonization of the Pacific islands, of the migration 
of man from island to island, and of the effect of insular environment 
on human culture, are very attractive fields of research. Much remains 
